CARAYON, AUGUSTE. - Jesuit and French historian, b. at Saumur on 31 March 1813, d. at Poitiers on 15 May 1874. Having already been ordained a priest, he entered the Society in 1841 and held various positions in the houses at Brugrette, Laval, Amiens, Paris, and Poitiers.
He published a *Histoire abrégée des Congrégations de la T. S. Vierge* (Paris 1863), a *Bibliographie historique de la Compagnie de Jésus* (ibid. 1864), and a vast series of *Documents inédits concernant la Compagnie de Jésus* (23 vols., Poitiers 1863–86; the last volume posthumous), dealing with the history of the Society in France, the suppression of the Order, and the history of the missions. Carayon also supervised the reprinting of various ascetical pamphlets by ancient Jesuits.